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Re: handling of test == by BASH's POSIX mode
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Eric Blake |
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Re: handling of test == by BASH's POSIX mode |
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Mon, 28 May 2012 09:03:16 -0600 |
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On 05/27/2012 01:15 AM, Jon Seymour wrote:
> Is there a reason why bash doesn't treat == as an illegal test
> operator when running in POSIX mode?
Because POSIX doesn't forbid extensions. Furthermore, POSIX is
considering the standardization of ==:
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=375
at which point, the use of == would be required to work.
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- Re: handling of test == by BASH's POSIX mode, (continued)
- Re: handling of test == by BASH's POSIX mode, Jon Seymour, 2012/05/27
- Re: handling of test == by BASH's POSIX mode, Andreas Schwab, 2012/05/27
- Re: handling of test == by BASH's POSIX mode, Jon Seymour, 2012/05/27
- Re: handling of test == by BASH's POSIX mode, Jon Seymour, 2012/05/27
- Re: handling of test == by BASH's POSIX mode, Dan Douglas, 2012/05/27
- Re: handling of test == by BASH's POSIX mode, Jon Seymour, 2012/05/27
- Re: handling of test == by BASH's POSIX mode, Eric Blake, 2012/05/28
- Re: handling of test == by BASH's POSIX mode, Jon Seymour, 2012/05/28
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